- cross-posted to:
- actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
Summary
A heated CNN interview saw Trump adviser Stephen Miller lose his composure while defending government job cuts and Elon Musk’s role in DOGE.
Host Brianna Keilar pressed Miller on the chaotic termination and reinstatement of 300 nuclear agency employees, leading him to angrily demand why she wasn’t “celebrating” government cuts.
Keilar urged him to “calm down.”
The White House later claimed that Musk is not an employee or administrator of DOGE but serves only as a senior adviser to Trump.
This is Miller’s go-to when he doesn’t want to talk about what’s being discussed. He goes on a hyperbolic rant tangential to the topic to get the other party to ask him to calm down then address his rant.
He’s also just so transparent and bad at it.
If it were me, and my show, I would mute him immediately when he started that. I would say, “This is an interview, not a pulpit, not an editorial. I will not allow any guest to take over my show to force their unfiltered messaging over my questions. If anyone gets to editorialize on my show, it is me. And here are the facts as I see them.”
And then I would list all of the questions he failed to answer, fact check the ones he did, and then draw my own conclusions based on those lies and evasion, and I would do it all while his stupid face screams ineffectually into the camera, completely silently, until he stormed off in anger. Then I would plaster the stupidest, maddest face he had made in the frame instead for the remainder of my monologue.
Then the billionaires would fire you immediately
Ah, but what a ride
That’s terriffic!
That’s the long way of saying he turns into a little bitch.